A collection of essays addressing issues faced by youth and health care professionals in medical decision making.

This book, first published in 1991, argues that AIDS is a 'disease of society', which is challenging and changing society profoundly.

Decision Making in Health Care, first published in 2000, is a comprehensive overview of the field of medical decision making.

The cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan.

An introduction to the development of medical and hospital services in Britain before 1939.

Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of ...

This 1998 book contains historical essays about how diseases change their meaning.

This thought-provoking volume compares the responses of women in a variety of countries and cultural settings to modern medical technologies. The contributors describe how ...

The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness ...

A collection of essays on fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany.